Off on holiday!

Hi all,

sorry have been a little lax in updating this page. I've also realised that it seems to have turned into a personal diary rather than an update of church events. The reason for that is that it is very difficult to actually keep the narrative to strictly church events, without giving some perspective on my part, so I won't make any apologies for that. After all, I hope you guys want to know what my thoughts and feelings are, rather than just narrating church events to you right?

We have had mass evangelistic training over the last three weeks after service, which have actually been very good. Yesterday's session was the final one, which showcased several methods of sharing the gospel. The session yesterday was taken by a few different presenters. Last week's was by Lester and Srimal, and covered a good background of how to deal with likely questions which you might face when sharing the gospel.

The purpose of this training was to equip the church with skills to share the gospel in preparation for some of the evangelistic events coming up, such as Mother's Day, and some of the youth programmes as well. Gospel camp is in fact coming up this weekend, but unfortunately for the first time in 5 years, Elena and I will not be around, as we are going to Phuket! We'd booked the trip back in October, so even after the tsunami, we decided to go ahead with it and at least try and do our little part in rebuilding the tourist economy. We will be on a boat for 4 days (dive dive dive.....) and then in Phuket for another 3; leaving tomorrow and back next Tues. Looking forward to it.

Other happenings in church; AGM coming in May. Our first AGM as an independent congregation, and approaches have already been made to some people to run for deaconship, and of course, other people have been asked to step up to be elders. Watch this space for more updates, but many are said to be considering the nominations.....

Hope you all liked the photos of the new house, and do drop me a line to share your thoughts. Let us know how we can be praying for you guys too!